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The conference runs October 22-24, 2012. On Monday, October 22, the plenary theme is “Big Data – The Next Frontier in the Enterprise,” and speakers will address the challenges and solutions facing Enterprise Architecture within the context of the growth of Big Data. Topics to be explored include:

How does an enterprise adopt the means to contend with Big Data within its information architecture?

How does Big Data enable your business architecture?

What are the issues concerned with real-time analysis of the data resources on the cloud?

What are the information security challenges in the world of outsourced and massively streamed data analytics?

What is the architectural view of security for cloud computing? How can you take a risk-based approach to cloud security?

On Tuesday, October 23, Dr. Robert Winter, Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, will kick off the day with a keynote on EA Management and Transformation Management.